Nobelprijswinnaar Mohamed ElBaradei, het vorige hoofd van het IAEA, weigerde gebruik te maken van inlichtingen die hij niet zelf had verzameld. Dat is iets waar zijn opvolger, de Japanner Amano, geen moeite mee heeft. The Guardian las de door WikiLeaks gelekte Amerikaanse ambassade-documenten over zijn nipt gewonnen aanstelling en kopte, de Amerikanen citerend: 'New nuclear chief a 'once-a-decade' chance to shake up UN bureacracy'. Amerikaanse diplomaten noteren enthousiast dat hun eerste ontmoeting 'illustrates the very high degree of convergence between his priorities and our own agenda at the IAEA.' De goed ingevoerde Flynt Leverettschrijft: 'An October 2009 cable from the U.S. mission to the IAEA, published last year by Wikileaks, see here, reported that Amano had “reminded [the U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA] on several occasions that he would need to make concessions” at times to developing countries, “but that he was solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision”, including “the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.”'

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